Paint Quotes - Page 23

• You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

  Sara Genn

  Needs, Enough, Assurance

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• There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

  Brandon Boyd

  Creativity, Wings, Goal

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• I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

  Leonid Afremov

  Dream, Kids, Artist

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• I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

  Alex Kingston

  Mother, Art, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being pulled that long and that hard for a 12-hour day gave me migraines. It's what they used to do before there were facelifts for actresses – you know, Joan Crawford's whole career was this. Then the makeup is like Earl Scheib auto body paint sprayed on my face.

  Rob Lowe

  Makeup, Careers, Long

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• I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

  Fernando Botero

  Thinking, World, Able

  "Fernando Botero: Colombian Artist Turns 80 And Has No Plans To Retire" by Laura Steiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2012.

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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• How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

  Ben Shahn

  Sky, Yellow, Black

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• What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

  Gilbert Stuart

  Potatoes, Portraits, Peaches

  Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

  Agnes Martin

  Thinking, Perfect, Mind

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Effects, Ifs, Transient

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• If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

  Diane Frolov

  Art, Cat, House

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• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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• As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

  Max Cannon

  Space, Studios, I Can

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• It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

  William Merritt Chase

  Two, Spoil

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• I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

  Marc Chagall

  Littles, Jew

  Susan P. Compton, Marc Chagall (1990). “Marc Chagall: my life, my dream : Berlin and Paris, 1922-1940”, Prestel Pub

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• We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Quality, Posse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

  Man Ray

  Wish, Photograph

  "Photo Graphics: From the Collection of Arnold H. Crane".

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• If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Records, Opponents

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• Everyday's a good day when you paint

  Bob Ross

  Good Day, Everyday

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• One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.

  Glenn Ligon

  Light, Black, Would Be

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• The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

  LeRoy Neiman

  Guy, Students, Abstract

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